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Certainly an AAW ship of the period should have had both Sea Dart and Sea Wolf (as I propose in my article). My point was that in long-range engagements whether the attacking plane was ultimately going to be attacking your ship or the one close to you in formation makes no practical difference to the firing solution. With a close-in defence system this becomes a real problem as to protect another ship involves engaging a target with a considerable angular rate of change rather than a simple head-on one.You really can't compare a VTOL transport with a CTOL one - whatever the technology, whether a helicopter, a tilt-rotor or a gyrodyne, the VTOL one is vastly more expensive to buy and run and has a greatly inferior speed and payload/range. You would only use a VTOL craft if VTOL was an absolute requirement for doing the job. What matters is therefore how the gyrodyne compares with a helicopter, because that's the only alternative if you must have VTOL (given the technology of the time). And the Rotodyne had a vastly superior performance to any contemporary helicopter.
Certainly an AAW ship of the period should have had both Sea Dart and Sea Wolf (as I propose in my article). My point was that in long-range engagements whether the attacking plane was ultimately going to be attacking your ship or the one close to you in formation makes no practical difference to the firing solution. With a close-in defence system this becomes a real problem as to protect another ship involves engaging a target with a considerable angular rate of change rather than a simple head-on one.
You really can't compare a VTOL transport with a CTOL one - whatever the technology, whether a helicopter, a tilt-rotor or a gyrodyne, the VTOL one is vastly more expensive to buy and run and has a greatly inferior speed and payload/range. You would only use a VTOL craft if VTOL was an absolute requirement for doing the job. What matters is therefore how the gyrodyne compares with a helicopter, because that's the only alternative if you must have VTOL (given the technology of the time). And the Rotodyne had a vastly superior performance to any contemporary helicopter.
